Earthylove
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So something pretty big has recently come up and I could really use some input!
Some background (sorry its long):
I am very close with my grandparents and have lived with them all of my growing up years until shortly before i left for college. in fact, the first girl i have, if i have a girl, will be named after my grandma. So we are very close, but as of right now, they live on the west coast and my DH and i live on the east coast (I'm finishing up graduate work out here and really loving the city I'm in). Lately they haven't been doing very well and are no loner able to care for their large property, home and all of their animals (chickens and cats). they offered us the opportunity to buy their house for a ridiculously affordable price and live there for free until we have jobs and enough money saved to comfortably buy the home and make it officially ours. Now, this is a great move for many reasons, financially, it's in a great town, i can be closer to my family and grandparents, it's very safe, its a large 2 story house, large yard, its just fantastic all around...
the problem:
the problem is that DH and I plan to ttc at the end of August/early September and so we will have a little one maybe joining us for the move to a new home (we would make the move in 1 or 2 years). this wouldn't necessarily be that big of a concern for me, but my grandparents have a lot of old cats. they have like 7 cats and they are very smelly. My plan was to remodel the heck out of the place because it definitely looks like an old person's house on the inside, it smells, and the cats have ruined many things (carpet, etc) with urine and claw scratching. but! We may not be able to get to that right away because it will cost money and even if we did, the cats are still alive and will probably ruin the new stuff anyway. the cats are old, like 12 years, so in theory they don't have too much longer, however those guys look pretty robust and healthy to me. i'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of the smell without somehow addressing the cat population but my grandma loves them and is asking me to keep and take care of the cats!
So basically the cats are what have me worried about all of this. What would you do? i mean, i would feel bad about keeping them all outside because they're old and it can get quite hot/cold, depending on the season. I could keep them in one room of the house but then the smell would be concentrated and thats probably cruel anyway. I would give them away, but my grandma wants me to keep them. ah!
How do I deal with the cats?
Some background (sorry its long):
I am very close with my grandparents and have lived with them all of my growing up years until shortly before i left for college. in fact, the first girl i have, if i have a girl, will be named after my grandma. So we are very close, but as of right now, they live on the west coast and my DH and i live on the east coast (I'm finishing up graduate work out here and really loving the city I'm in). Lately they haven't been doing very well and are no loner able to care for their large property, home and all of their animals (chickens and cats). they offered us the opportunity to buy their house for a ridiculously affordable price and live there for free until we have jobs and enough money saved to comfortably buy the home and make it officially ours. Now, this is a great move for many reasons, financially, it's in a great town, i can be closer to my family and grandparents, it's very safe, its a large 2 story house, large yard, its just fantastic all around...
the problem:
the problem is that DH and I plan to ttc at the end of August/early September and so we will have a little one maybe joining us for the move to a new home (we would make the move in 1 or 2 years). this wouldn't necessarily be that big of a concern for me, but my grandparents have a lot of old cats. they have like 7 cats and they are very smelly. My plan was to remodel the heck out of the place because it definitely looks like an old person's house on the inside, it smells, and the cats have ruined many things (carpet, etc) with urine and claw scratching. but! We may not be able to get to that right away because it will cost money and even if we did, the cats are still alive and will probably ruin the new stuff anyway. the cats are old, like 12 years, so in theory they don't have too much longer, however those guys look pretty robust and healthy to me. i'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of the smell without somehow addressing the cat population but my grandma loves them and is asking me to keep and take care of the cats!
So basically the cats are what have me worried about all of this. What would you do? i mean, i would feel bad about keeping them all outside because they're old and it can get quite hot/cold, depending on the season. I could keep them in one room of the house but then the smell would be concentrated and thats probably cruel anyway. I would give them away, but my grandma wants me to keep them. ah!
How do I deal with the cats?